Wednesday, November 2, 2011

There is much around us today--these days--that focuses on fear, and gloom and all that is wrong in the world. The price of everything is going up by leaps and bounds. The job market is suffering a huge setback. Home mortgages are being defaulted on. People are rioting in the streets. Wars are breaking out in places all over the Mid-East. Weather is going berserk. The stock market keeps diving and so does our 401K or retirement fund. Greece is about to go financially belly-up, and the list grows. An individual (or community, or nation, etc.) could get very caught up in the negative aspect of the world at large today. And people are worried.

That's why I want to share some quotes I recently found on Facebook.

"In this uncertain world, there are some things that never change:
the perfect love of our Heavenly Father for each of us; the assurance that He
is there and will always hear us; the existence of absolute, unchanging truths;
the fact that there is a plan of happiness; the assurance that success in life
is attained through faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to His teachings
because of the redemptive power of His Atonement; the certainty of life after death; the
reality that our condition there is set by how we live here. Whether one does
or does not accept these truths does not alter their reality. They are the
fundamental building blocks of a living testimony."

--Richard G. Scott

The link is below.

"The future of this world has long been declared; the final outcome
between good and evil is already known. There is absolutely no question
as to who wins because the victory has already been posted on the
scoreboard. The only really strange thing in all of this is that we are
still down here on the field trying to decide which team's jersey we
want to wear!" Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

I like such a positive focus point as these two great men have expressed. I find great peace in trusting God especially when times get rough.